In fact, I’m hoping DressGate will be a turning point in our societies whereby we become way more self-critical about what our brains think is self-evident and natural and the only, inevitable way to see things. That’s probably a bit optimistic. But I do think it could be cool to talk about the dress picture in an educational setting to introduce the concept of ideology.

After an eleventh-hour resurrection of Cut Your Hair just before the 2017 NZ election, the blog has re-overtaken its old rivals Put ’em all on an island, Keeping Stock and, the ultimate nemesis, Room 5 @ Melville Intermediate School.

(However, these rankings should be taken with a large grain of salt because not every blog is included, the stats are very fakeable, and each counter gives different stats, as you’ll see below)